Emblemas del papado. La representación del vicio en la propaganda protestante alemana del siglo XVI

Resumen

ABSTRACT: Those of the Wittenberg Circle who had undergone reformation continually submitted their criticisms to the Papacy throughout the sixteenth century. They saw in this institution one of the principal evils of the Catholic Churchn which they saw one of the principal males of the Catholic Church. As a result, they identified the Papacy ad nauseam with the Antichrist and with cardinal sins such as lust, gluttony, greed or pride.  This article thus analyzes diverse aberrant ways of depicting the Papacy in order to evaluate the importance and meaning of this identification as part of the political-religious polemics and of the phenomenon of the propaganda of the convulsed period of the Protestant Reformation.

KEY WORDS: Protestant Propaganda, Papacy, Vice, Pamphlets.

RESUMEN: Los reformados del Círculo de Wittenberg criticaron de forma constante a lo largo del siglo XVI al Papado, institución en la que vieron uno de los principales males de la Iglesia Católica. De ahí que la identificaran ad nauseam con el Anticristo y con pecados capitales como la lujuria, la gula, la avaricia o la soberbia. Nos ocupamos precisamente en este trabajo de analizar diversas formas aberrantes de representar al Papado para valorar la importancia y significado de esa identificación dentro de las polémicas político-religiosas y del fenómeno de la propaganda de los tiempos convulsos de la Reforma protestante.

PALABRAS CLAVES: Propaganda protestante, papado, vicio, panfletos.